Top web sites plotted in a subway-style map
Information Architects has put together a remarkable map of the "top 200 mos successful websites" arranged by category, popularity, and other characteristics.
The map is available as a desktop background, a PDF file, a OSX screensaver, or as a clickable online map. Scroll your mouse over various sites to get a thumbnail preview, or click to go through to the source sites.
This is actually the second version of the map. The Web Trendmap 1.0 lacked a few of the features of the new map:
The map is available as a desktop background, a PDF file, a OSX screensaver, or as a clickable online map. Scroll your mouse over various sites to get a thumbnail preview, or click to go through to the source sites.
This is actually the second version of the map. The Web Trendmap 1.0 lacked a few of the features of the new map:
- More websites have been added including some Japanese, German, and Chinese sites.
- The lines have been renamed and streamlined for Sharing, Tools, Tech, etc.
- A trend forecast has been added
- Sites have been labeled Web 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, and 2.5.













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Subscribe to commentsRanking PeruJul 21st 2007 7:35AM
Very interesting indeed. I've long created one called "Ranking de las Top Webs Peruanas", which is the same but focused only on my country, Peru. It displays current rank, position in the world rank, as well as changes from month to month:
http://www.universidadperu.com/ranking-webs-peruanas.php
ikebowenJul 22nd 2007 9:10AM
Yep. It's a series of tubes.
robertAug 9th 2007 7:29AM
other map based on the websites world classification carried out by Alexa and ComScore. The websites traffic is correlated with the surface of the countries:
http://explomap.free.fr/world_web_map.html